Crystal Mountains

This tutorial is really just a random effect that I came up with after fiddling around in photoshop, but the end result looks rather nice. It shows you have to create what seems to look like a crystal looking mountain with grass on the walkway. .

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600x600.

Set your colors to default black and white by pressing
"D".

Fill your background with black.

Now go to Filter » Render »
Difference Clouds.

Press CTRL+F 2 more times to apply it 2 more times.

Now go to Filter » Stylize » WindMethod: WindDirection: From the Right

Press CTRL+F five times to reapply the wind filter
5 more times.

Now go to Image » Rotate
Canvas » 90CCW.

Now go to Filter » Sharpen » Unsharp
Mask.

Amount: 500%Radius: 2.0Threshold: 0

Then Filter » Sharpen » Sharpen.
do this twice.

Then Duplicate this layer, and hide the top layer.
We'll work with the bottom layer now.